Jorg's Brain Log

Lesson learned this week: Catching up doesn’t work! If you’re behind, you already failed.

General

• Sleep – I stopped with the polyphasic sleep cycle. It was fun, but the 3 naps during day time aren’t always really convienent. I think I go back to a 4 hour sleep and a nap in the afternoon. Lets sleep on it.
• Eating – It was my last week of normal eating 4 times a day. Next week on I plan to slowly go back to the paleo diet.
• Business Habit – good productive week, but still missing something. Working on it.
• Music – In the first half of the week I did a lot of guitar playing, so that’s a good thing. Was fun and felt good..

Writing

Because I had some catching up to do from the week before, it was too much writing in the beginning of the week, which gave me a little bit of a burnout in the end.

• Monday: 2x iJorg, 3x Shark Freediving, 2x Brain, Skills, Appetite
• Tuesday: iJorg, 2x Shark Freediving
• Wednesday:
• Thursday: Shark Freediving
• Friday: 3x iJorg, Shark Freediving, Brain, Sharkbait
• Saturday: Shark Freediving
• Sunday: Shark Freediving

21 posts this week. Because I had a lot of catching up to I actually had to write around 28 posts. That was too much. So if I had done the scheduled 22 it would be perfect! So no more catching up from now in the daily cycle! Didn’t write? Too bad!

Sports

More catching up to do! Because of sickness last week I had two extra runs to do. This doesn’t work like this. Missed something? Do it next time, but don’t put it extra in the schedule.

• Monday: run 5k/29:10 min
• Tuesday: run 40 min
• Wednesday: snowboarding
• Thursday: Pool Freediving
• Friday: -
• Saturday: -
• Sunday: -

It has become clear that improvement needs time once again. You can’t build Rome in one day and when you think of it, it will never be finished neither.

The path of improvement is what drives me, not the end result. As soon as I reach a target I set a new one and try to reach that one.

I have a lot of plans, but I don’t plan a lot! I plan stuff that can be planned, I do stuff that needs to be done. And in the end it’s just about that feeling of accomplishment.

In that regards it was an interesting week! Some experiments made it even more interesting then usual.

General

• Sleep – was shit. Due to a small stomach virus I was so low on energy.
• Eating – this one was pretty okay. But I really have to plan to get back to my paleo food
• Business Habit – also pretty happy, but not like it should have been.
• Music – I made some music during the week, but it was mostly on my son’s keyboard, which was fun anyway.

Writing

Due to the fact that I kept my laptop out on Sunday, I have to make up for some lost writing on Monday. Plan is that have everything up again so that is 22 blog posts and some work on my book. Schedule looked like this:

• Monday: iJorg, Shark Freediving, Brain, Skills
• Tuesday: no writing
• Wednesday: 3x iJorg, 3x Shark Freediving, Brain, Appetite
• Thursday: no writing
• Friday: iJorg, Shark Freediving, Skills, Sharkbait
• Saturday: iJorg
• Sunday: no writing

As you can see I’m starting to get into pro-active writing. Working ahead of schedule. But unfortunatly I was behind schedule again end of the week. Let’s try to fix this for the coming week. Just bad planning.

Sports

Pool freediving and only one run this week. I planned to do 2 other runs in the weekend, but my stomach was not happy, so I decided to put them ahead of schedule. I have to make up for this the coming week!.

• Tuesday: -
• Wednesday: pool freediving
• Thursday: run 5k/29:15 min
• Friday: -
• Saturday: -
• Sunday: -

Let’s make a Super-week coming week!

Time to reflect back on the week and how everything went.

General

Because I was sick I had to cut the schedule somewhere and the best thing to do it was here. My sleep schedule has been on somewhat of a pause. Eating is still pretty okay, but when I’m hungry I eat. Business habit was shit. Because of my cold it was hard to breath and talk, but I managed to do some of it anyway. And music was also forgotten, besides a few sessions on the keyboard. Better next week!

Writing

I’m happy to report that I kept to my complete writing schedule. That is 22 blog posts and some work on my book. Schedule looked like this:

• Tuesday: iJorg, Shark Freediving, Brain, CIO, Life Skills
• Wednesday: iJorg, Shark Freediving, Appetite
• Thursday: iJorg, Shark Freediving
• Friday: iJorg, Shark Freediving, Life Skills
• Saturday: Shark Freediving, Brain
• Sunday: 2x iJorg, Shark Freediving, Brain, CIO, Sharkbait, Appetite, Book

Sports

Stretching stays a problem. I decided to first get indepth information, so that I can start with a good stretching schedule in December. For the rest it went pretty okay.

• Tuesday: -
• Wednesday: 5k / 28:30 min run
• Thursday: 1100 meter swim
• Friday: -
• Saturday: 5k / 28:57 min run
• Sunday: 8k / 52,19 min run

Conclusion

It was a good productive week, when I take in account that I was sick for some days. Writing and sports still went well. Biggest lesson learned is planning on paper really works for me. So from now on I plan my week every Sunday evening with the tasks and appointments ahead.

What a week!  I must confess that due to the polyphasic sleep experiment things didn’t exactly went like planned. At times the extra burst of energy gave me a lot of productivity, while at other times, unforeseen energy drains like zombie hours took time away.

Also I’m a day late on closing my week. There is illness in the family and I’m involved as well this time. Thankfully not too much, but enough that on Sunday evening I decided to abort my running after 5 minutes. And while not feeling so well, I managed to do a late night run today.

So here in short, what went well and what didn’t:

Sleep

I wrote already enough about this one. The sleep experiment is a success. Only due to illness I aborted it now for a day or 2, but I’ll take it up again tomorrow.

Eating

With the new sleep cycle it was pretty easy to eat only during each waking period. Still I noticed extra hunger between 3pm and 9pm and had an extra snack now and then. I try to be stricter the coming week.

Business Habit

Okay, I managed to completely neglect this one. Maybe on a subconsciousness level I was not ready for this habit. So zero points here!

Music

Zero points here as well. The times I wanted to make some music, the family was asleep. Strange I only have this creative feeling between 10pm and 8am. Lets see if I can change this.

Writing

Writing went well, but not on schedule. I didn’t do daily posts for iJorg and Shark Freediving, but I was on catch-up modus again. Really have to change this way of working. Lets see how to improve.

Sports

Went okay. Did 3 runs and some pool freediving. I managed to do a stretching session, but that didn’t feel okay. I have to find a good stretching routine for this week. I thought about track & field and decided I’ll make this optional again.

Lets start planning the next week.